DCNS SMX OCEAN heavy SSK
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Quiet hard knowing that Soryu's are swimming in the Pacific Ocean right now doing well and this design might never leave the drawing board phase...
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
AIP supplements conventional power sources it does not replace them. These boats still need a snorkel for operation of there conventional power packs and circulation of fresh air. AIP doesn't produce air and water on there own.
antiterror13
Brigadier
PLAN may be interested for TOT ... lol ... really it's only a concept design which a lot of people can do it ... to make it happen and works as design ... is two totally different things, if everything goes smoothly (which I highly doubt it), it would have a prototype perhaps in 10 years time ... and at that time Chinese SSK tech would be much much better
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Comparable perhaps, I doubt a huge step forward by anyone just yet. One of the advantages of this concept is it leverages from a major program. The Hull of this sub is that of the Barracuda class SSN. This is smart. If you really think about it all SSN class subs are really conventional subs with a reactor. All SSNs have a conventional power pack built in as a emergency system to pump in fresh air or help restart the reactor. By taking advantage of that what this concept is is a modification replacing the reactor with a AIP system. This means that a large amount of the systems integration is already done. Its just changes in the main propulsion system and power supply.
On a side note, yesterday I found this:
So Japan is going away from AIP, in favor of the higher power density Li Ion batteries. While the DCNS concept utilizes both. I wonder if that makes the Australians look a bit further now, or if an austrailian Soryu could still be built with AIP.
So Japan is going away from AIP, in favor of the higher power density Li Ion batteries. While the DCNS concept utilizes both. I wonder if that makes the Australians look a bit further now, or if an austrailian Soryu could still be built with AIP.
Lethe
Captain
It's a huge step forward in the sense that it's a significantly larger platform, which is exactly what Australia had been seeking to replace it's Collins-class submarines, already the largest SSKs in the world outside specialised units like Type 032. Soryu has been in the news recently mostly because it is the largest SSK actually in production (even if it is a bit smaller than the Collins boats) and consequently a much lower risk option than either designing from scratch or scaling up an existing design, as was done with Collins.
Unfortunately for this concept, though, what Australia wants and what Australia can afford are two different things, and more recently the talk has swung away from a dozen super-Collins boats to numbers and designs that the nation might actually be able to afford. We will know more with the upcoming Defence White Paper.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
Auhh, the Soryu class is bigger than the Collins class in all dimensions(length, beam and Displacement).